Improvement in clasps for looping skirts



vIr'npr'ovemnt i-n Clasps for Loo-ping Skirts.

PATENT @Prien MARION R.ZERBE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN CLASPS FOR LOOPING SKIRTS.

-Specification forming pnrt of Letters Patent No. 124,308, datcd March5, 1872.

Specification describing a neuT and useful Improvement in Olasps forLooping Skirts, invented by MARION B. ZERBE, of the city of New York, inthe county and State of New York. f

My invention consists of a skirt-clasp for l looping up dress-skirts andthe like, which is formed of a small plate of metal with a spring,button, and points on each side, so 'arranged that it will be buttonedto a slight loop or fold of the skirt by one end, and suspended toreceive the other fold in the other end, the said folds being secured byturning the buttons over the fold, which is placed on the plate and thepoints, all as hereinafter described.

Figure l is a side elevation of my improved loop-holder with one otl thebuttons adjusted to the position for applying` the loop to the plate andpoints, to be fastened by turning the bottom back over the lower end ofthe pate, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation showing the manner of loopingthe skirt of a dress by it. A represents the plate, B B the buttons, andO the points. The two buttons are on opposite sides of' the plate, andthey are pivoted to opposite ends. The points are in the same relativepositions, but they are riveted to the end of the plate, over which thefree end of the button on the same side of the plate that the points areswung, and they point toward the pivot of the button. Said buttons arecurved outward from the plate to provide room for the points under them;also for the loop of the dress to be secured, and to have the free endspinch upon the plate A when adjusted to fasten the loop. The looper thusconstructed is suspended from the upper part of the skirt of the dressby fastening to a loop, D, thereof by the upper end of the plate and thebutton on the back side, and a loop, E, to be fastened up is engaged bythe lower end and front button, as shown. The instrument thus. holds theloops both by pinching them between the ends of the buttons and theplate and by crowding the. loops against the points C, whicheft'ectually prevent them from escaping. Care will be taken not to havethe points sharp enough to make holes in the dress. The instrument is tobe made quite small and light, and may be made of any line metal and inany ornamental style.

Havin g. thus described myv invention, I claim p as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent- A skirt-clasp for looping up garments, con vsisting of plate A, pivoted spring-buttons B B', and serrated points CC, constructed and combined as and for the purpose described.

' MARION R. ZERBE.

Vitnesses: GEO. W. MABEE, ALEX. F. ROBERTS.

